SwiftDeck — Why I Rewrote the Stream Deck App From Scratch
The official Elgato app used almost a gigabyte of RAM across eight processes and got stuck whenever my monitor went to sleep. So I wrote a native macOS replacement.
Tooling
8 posts tagged Tooling.
Kinetip — Making a Pen Tablet Feel Native on macOS
I run my Mac with a pen tablet instead of a mouse. The vendor driver kept getting in the way, so I wrote my own. Here's the input path from tablet to screen, and what keeping a realtime driver alive taught me.
Three Small Tools for Living with Local AI
mini-tagger, mini-renamer and lms-guard: three small macOS utilities I built because running models locally is great, except for everything around the model.
Giving AI Agents Eyes and Hands in Creative Tools
My AI assistant could read my code but not my canvas. MCP servers for Figma and Blender changed that. Here's what it was like to use them on real work.
Stream Deck + Karabiner — Building an Input Layer That Fits How I Actually Work
I stopped putting up with the default keyboard and built my own input setup out of a Stream Deck XL and some Karabiner rules. It isn't really about speed.
Voice Coding with Talon — A Year of Hands-Free Development
My wrists were getting tired, so I started coding by voice. A year later, here's what works, what doesn't, and how my Talon setup works with JetBrains and the terminal.
Poly Highlights — Designing a Luminance-Corrected IDE Theme
My eyes were tired after a couple of hours with every theme I tried. Here's how I fixed it by designing the colors around brightness first.